Druhá husitská válka na jednáních sněmů Svaté říše římské (1467-1474)
The Second Hussite War at the Imperial Diets (1467-1474)

Summary/Abstract: The "Causa bohemica" was successively dealt with by seven Imperial Assemblies between 1466 and 1474. Three of them could have brought a fateful decision for the Bohemian Crown. It was the desire of papal diplomacy and, temporarily, of the emperor that the councils should approve the active millitary involvement of the Holy Roman Empire in a new crusade against the Bohemian king as a heretic and enemy of the Church, then only a war could be waged against the Turks. The imperial princes and cities were hanged by the Pope, but were also contacted directly from the Bohemian Kingdom by the Catholic opposition associated with the Green Mountain Unity. When in 1468 the Hungarian monarch Matthias Corvinus came out millitarily against King George, the representatives of the Curia believed that the approach of the Imperial Estates to the Bohemian war would change. A shift in the attitude towards King George as a result of his military failures did occur among the imperial princes and cities, but omly from mild support to cautious neutrality. The legate's efforts were, however, completely thwarted by the news of the truce between George of Poděbrady and Matthias Corvinus, whose attempt to penetrate from Moravia into the interior of Bohemia proper was stopped in the Iron Mountains. After the election of the Polish prince Wladyslaw Jagiellonian at Kutná Hora, the "Bohemian problem" was no longer a question of whether to take military action against the Bohemian caliphs, but which of the two men who now claimed the title of King of Bohemia the Empire would recognise. The legates no longer raised the demand for a crusade into Bohemia at this or other imperial councils; the Empire itself and the emperor were much more interested in the Turks.

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